Daily Republican., 1887-06-04

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Thursday, June 9th.
er Republic, at Fourth street wharf;
hurry up and get on board or you will
be left, as the boat starts at Z o'clock
a. m, sharp. All right let her 20 Are
you ready Captain Lackey? Aye, aye,
all ready. Are yon ready, Conman-
Ider-in-Chief, Rev. Mr.. Stengle, and
general SUPERB htendents, Hysore and
IWeiser? Aye, aye, all ready. Then
raise the anchor, throw off the ropes,
let the whistles blow, unfurl the flags,
beat your drums, and foot your horns
let the bells ring, ding, dong, ding,
dong, here we go two thousand strong;
good bye Wilmington for day, good
| bye all hands ashore until we return
again. BE sure and meet us at the
landing in the evening. What grand
boat the RepulN lie is. Newly painted
and newly carpeted, we do not want it
to rain, but If II does let it fall, we have
n little world on the Republic, the
great leviathan of the Delaware river
and bay, in which to romp ard play to
lounge and sleep TO walk and talk,
and we'll never mind the weather while
the wind don't blow. But here we are
gliding down the snake-like Christiana.
How natty A Ibert's brass band boys
look in their summer suits, and what
Icharining mnsic they are making They
are favorites with the Union Sunday
School. Let us See We have left to
the rear the Harlan 81 Hollingsworth
works; The Pnsey & Jones works; G.
Warner & Company and Bush 81 Sons
coal yards, aud the Third street bridge
is dropping to the rear. The Kennebec
ice houses, The Wilmington glass
works; EDoch Moore's ship yards; the
Mccullough iron works; The Diamond
State iron conlpany's works; The Jack
son & Sharp cpmpany's works, all look
as If they were hurrying mp into Will
mington TO get to work. Just listen at
the notwithstanding, and whistling
Iof every little whiflet of II tug boat, why
even those mnd-scows think they have
to open their huge Threats and below
rs the noble Republic passes by. They
make All awful noise but then it shows
their good breeding and respect fer SUI
lperiors.
But now we are getting away from
Wilmington. The Cbristiana light house
to the left of the mouth of the creek, bows
1 tiS ollt w llIt AJtliWaIt NY ollU, w mere lie
| Republic will be more at home than She
has been poking her prov around the
1curves In the Christiana. She has to be
very careful how she passes out as the
channel hcreis very narrow, but Cap
tain Lackey knows every inch of the way
and he will guide the noble vessel safely
Through. But there is another light
house away out there on the end of Jet
fly. There IL something singular about
this light house. 1t burns all the time,
but only show when darkness comes
There is no trouble in lighting mp this
light house. Now the PROV Of the steam
er is turned down the river and the
white wingel sails of commerce are seen
upon every hand. Away back yonder
on the Jersey side is Pennsgrove nestled
in grove OF trees. II is % miles from
Philadelphia, from Wilmington as the
lcrow flies. 1t has about 1000 of pop,i-
Ilation.
Now we are coming in sight of New
lCastle the second city of Delaware, with
It's 1000 population. Here the county
Ijail is located and criminals of thicvinc
propenSities are pilloried and whipped.
IThose church steeples pointing heaven
Iward above the trees teach a gospel tina,
leads to the cross instead of TO the
whipping post. After leaving New
Castle, the solid walls of Fort Delaware
loom up ahead. This fort considered
lstronga good many years ago, would
mot stand long against the iornidabl,
weapons of the present day. During the
late civil war, 13, 600 rebel prisoners cap
II tured ut the battle of Gettysburg, wer,
! confined on the island. Over there t,
. the left on the Jersey shore il Finn;
i Dnint t.bnt. thu ralal cold ;aro x.,l,n I,aa
!. at the fort were buried. Three or foul
soldiers died every day. The island OF
(which the fort is located is called "Pca-
. Patch, and is said to have been formed
from cargo of peas sunk in the bay ant
(which taking root grew into an island
lover to the right is Delaware City, popu
lation about 1000. Here is the outlet of til,
Delaware and Chesapeake canal.
Ilarge fire last January burned larg
lportion ofthe town. Below the town ar
/ some earth works thrown up to be uset
iwhcn needed.
& Right across tho Delaware Bay /
!, Salem, the capital of Salem Count.
New Jersey. 1t has population o
:. I7000. The steeples of the town can jns
he seen up Salem creek from the deck q
B the Republic. Coming over to the Della
. ware side again we strike Port Penn,
pheasant little village of 400 population
!, The town is great resort for gunner
o and fishermen. DO the excursionist
want to know why some of those buoy
floating on the river are painted red an
some black? Red buoys are 10 be passe
TO the right and black ones to the left o
Jentering II river. That long strip {
lgreen sea weeds to the right ending wit
a light housed called Reedy Island. TIL
next place of note on the Delaware sboi
! lis called Collins Beach, summer re
4 Isort. The pier, the pavilion, and I'll
farm house, are about all that can l
lseen. Woodland Beach, formerly "Bon
bay Hook" is another place of SON
note. The Union NJ. Il. Sunday Schot
has had two excursions to this plac
The last excursion was noted for ba
tie that took place between the schot
and the mosquitoes, the latter drivin
the school from the grove. On we E
Z lover to the other side of the bay to ST
a Breeze. This is another place visitt
lsome years ago by our Sunday Schoo
NOW We are coming down to the wit
-tpart of the bay out of sight of lan'
\ THAT big tower rising so majesticall
out of the water is Ship John ligl
house. Good fishing grounds her
Here the porpoises commence to sno
land roll over in the waves, but wheth
June 9th, will be one of their spoutl
r days we cannot tell. Now look ahea
and sep the Cape May Point light hous
oil Yes, we are really coming to Cape Ma
or but my article is already too long
nt infinitely describe the place. Here n